Re: [AM] Plato on Documentation

In a message dated 3/13/2004 2:24:37 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:
I don't know about other folk, but I find that ideas I can describe
lucidly and to the point in writing come out of my mouth in a
jumbled, unintelligible mush.  One-to-one it isn't too bad, I can 
look at the ceiling and stroke my beard a few times while I 
gather my thoughts...  and throw in a placeholder;  "Hmm...
it depends..."   ;-)
Boy, do I hear you...I'm often in the same fix, and unfortunately, I'm 
usually the one chosen who to do the talking, presenting, explaining, etc. A friend 
of my father used to tell me that the best prop in these stuations is a pipe: 
when you get stuck, you can always pull it out, load it up, and puff away 
while gathering your thoughts. When I asked him why I'd never seen him smoking a 
pipe, he told me he'd had to choose between a pipe and a beard, because in his 
case, they were mutually exclusive for sake of his safety. As a young man, he 
was called upon to make a presentation at a shareholder's meeting. In a 
question and answer period at th end of the slide show, he took a moment to "gather 
his thoughts", and set his beard on fire. And that was that.

Regards,

Pete 

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